Each of our lives is chock full of trials, some minor irritations and others hitting us like a personal earthquake! Our natural reaction is to wish for a carefree life absent of such discomforts. But what if trials were actually gifts allowed into our lives for our eternal good? Might we then welcome them as friends?

An excerpt from Bold Thinking Christianity by Michael Phillips.

George MacDonald explores the first of Jesus' miracles, the turning of water into wine.

Dr. Barclay is here quoted from Chapter Three (“I Believe”) of his autobiography entitled, William Barclay, A Spiritual Autobiography.

Lately, I heard someone give voice to an all-too-familiar phrase in the Christian lexicon.  One that sounds piously self-defacing and is, I’m sure, intended to exalt God. However, on closer examination I believe it ends up doing just the opposite, stealing from God a goodly part of the glory of his Fatherhood! 

The unfortunate expression is this: We deserve hell.

With simple, searing logic Lewis defends the unchanging truths of Christianity against the supposed thinking of those who would seek to discredit it on the basis of the expanding knowledge of the universe.

First published in 1891, Henry Drummond's classic treatise on Love, based on 1 Corinthians 13, provides extraordinary insight into this greatest of virtues.

First published in 1891, Henry Drummond's classic treatise on Love, based on 1 Corinthians 13, provides extraordinary insight into this greatest of virtues.

First published in 1891, Henry Drummond's classic treatise on Love, based on 1 Corinthians 13, provides extraordinary insight into this greatest of virtues.

Christianity requires both sound thinking and doing.